The largest buyer of Linseed in the UK

As market leaders of Linseed our customers benefit from our established supply chain to added value customers throughout Europe. This means that we are able to offer a consistently high and stable price for conventional brown Linseed, yellow Linseed and organic Linseed but with the added security of no yield risk to the producer.

Grow Linseed with Confidence

With over 25 years of specialist knowledge and experience as a Linseed crop supplier and buyer, our dedicated team provides a full and professional service to the Linseed grower.

New, improved linseed varieties selected for their combination of high yield, early maturity and stiff straw

Unrivalled technical support based on years of linseed experience to help growers achieve maximum yield potential

INCREASED LINSEED YIELDS DUE TO CONTINUED AGRONOMY DEVELOPMENTS

Free agronomy bulletins, sent throughout the season, with topical advice and recommendations

Technical staff available to answer your queries

The only company with a dedicated linseed agronomist

Access to low risk markets

No fixed yield requirement and minimal quality criteria - ALL contracts are for the "produce of the area"

No admixture claims up to 5%

No capped load charges for deliveries made direct to end-users - Guaranteed

Any like for like offer beaten - Guaranteed

No claims or rejections for visual quality - Guaranteed

Network of stores to dry, clean or store linseed

Harvest Report

EasyCut Linseed varieties again proved a hit with growers with comments like "it was a dream to cut" or "we absolutely flew through the crop" being common-place. Their combination of short straw and low fibre content maximises harvestability and minimises combine down-time.

Higher Seed Rates

Premium Crops are the UK’s largest producer of Brown, Yellow and Organic linseed and as such have a strong interest in getting the best from the UK acreage. As part of an ongoing investment to improve the agronomy of the crop Premium Crops commissioned a range of sowing rate trials starting harvest 2014 which demonstrated that historical trends towards lower sowing rates (around 650 seeds/m2) has been deleterious to the yields that can be achieved.

As a result of these trials, Premium Crops are supplying all of their Contracts with sufficient seed to sow at the 800 seeds/m2 sowing rate and have subsidised the seed costs such that growers should see little or no change in the seed price.

Organic Linseed

There is a burgeoning market for organic linseed, both for human consumption and the animal feed industry. Premium Crops is looking for contract growers of Organic linseed.

More Profitable and Easier to Grow than Peas, Beans and Spring OSR

Great opportunity to include linseed as part of your blackgrass control strategy

Latest Rothamstead report shows that Spring cropping is by far the largest contributor towards blackgrass control

Reduces slug issues - growers are unlikely need to use slug pellets in the following Wheat crop (very pertinent with the over-use of Metaldehyde)

Linseed does not shed or shatter like OSR, which means it is reliable and low risk

There is a superb range of herbicides that can be used for weed control in Linseed. Weed control is significantly better in linseed than in other Spring break crops, particularly Spring OSR, beans and peas